What's inside the Robot Duck?

A robot duck the size of a water bottle gets shoved, falls on its back and stands up again on its own. How: Pollen Robotics' Microduck, from Disney's Star Wars droids and the free Open Duck Mini to Jensen Huang's stage, then inside it: fifteen motors, two inner ears, a camera and an eight-by-eight distance grid, a budget-tablet chip, a one-hour camera battery, and a walk it learned by falling in a simulation. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:10 A droid you couldn't buy 2:33 Fifteen muscles 3:18 An inner ear and two kinds of eyes 4:16 A brain from a budget tablet 4:59 One hour 5:39 Learning by falling 6:55 Is it thinking? Sources: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/ https://github.com/apirrone/Open_Duck... https://github.com/apirrone/Open_Duck...    • NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 Keynote With CEO Je...   https://www.martincid.com/technology-... https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/gtc/ Photo credits: Rockchip RK3566 chip: Dahlwoo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (File:Rockchip RK3566.png) IMU board (example of the sensor type): SparkFun, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (File:SparkFun 9DoF-IMU-Breakout LSM9DS1 13284-02.jpg) Microduck photos and pack illustrations: Pollen Robotics (pollen-robotics.com/microduck) Blueprint and diagram scenes: made for this video from Pollen's footage, marked ILLUSTRATION Video clips: NVIDIA, GTC Berlin 2026 keynote (NVIDIA's YouTube channel):    • NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 Keynote With CEO Je...   Pollen Robotics, Microduck page (pollen-robotics.com/microduck) NVIDIA Technical Blog, Announcing Newton (developer.nvidia.com) Open Duck Mini project on GitHub (Apache-2.0): https://github.com/apirrone/Open_Duck... NVIDIA on X, GTC Berlin 2026 (x.com/nvidia) Script researched and fact-checked from the sources above. #Microduck #PollenRobotics #HuggingFace